Sizing-machine.



No. 890,782. I PATENTED JUNE 16, 1908.

G. MASUREL-LEGLERGQ.

SIZING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 18. 1905.

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No. 890,782. PATENTED JUNE 16, 1908. G. MASUREL-LEOLEROQ.

SIZING MACHINE.

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GEORGES MAsuR L-LEcLEnc or RO'UBAIX, FRANCE.

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' Iatented June 16, 1908.

SIZING-MACHINE.

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I Application filed January 18, 1905. Serial No. 241,683.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LGEORGEsMAsUREL- LECLERCQ, a citizen of France, residing at Roubaix, Department of the Nord, France, have invented certain new and useful Imwhich the mg is a specification, reference being had-to t eaccompanying drawing, forminga his invention relates to means for drying the size after it has been agplied. Its main objects are to quickly and e ectively dry the size after it is applied; to

a thick even coating of size by aptions, each followed by a drying operation; to simultaneously size material of two or 1 more different colors; and generally to improve the construction paratus of this class. It consists in certain novel features of con struction and in the peculiar combinations and arrangement of parts as hereinafter particularly described and pointed out in the claims. I

In the accompanying drawing illustrating different arrangements of the apparatus for performing different classes of Work, Figure 1 is a vertical section of ap ing theinvention as adapte for sizing material either a single operation or in two operations; Fig. 2 is anend view on an enand operation of aplarged scale of one of the reels over which the material asses in the upper part of the drying cham er Fig. 3 is a diagram illustrating the use of the apparatus shown in Fig. 1 in a plying the size in a series of operations, to obtain a thick heavy coating; Fig. 4 is a diagram showing a modified arrangement of the apparatus for simultaneously sizing materra of diiierent colors, the walls of the drying chamber and other accessories of the apparatus being omitted in Figs. 3 and 4. Fig.

5 1s a longitudinal section on the line 5 5,-

Fig. 6, of the up er reel with the associated heating pipe an fan in one of the drying compartments; and-Figffi isa cross section of the same on the'line 6 6, Fig. 5.

Referring to Fig. 1, a vertical drying chamber comprising two compartments 1 and 2,

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the to aratus embodyseparated from each other by a central par tition '3, is located adjacent to the sizing machine. -In the upper ends of these compartments are mounted two reels 4 and 5, and in an opening in the artition 3 near the lower end of the drying c amber, is a reel 6. Each compartment is provided with steam coils or pipes 7, fans 8, and inclined deflecting plates he compartments of the drying chamber are open at the bottom to admit air, and'are provided with chimneys or openings 10 at ried o therewith from the drying material. Galleries 11 at the sides of the drying tower aflord means for observing the operation of the ap aratus and the condition of the work.

In t e o eration of the apparatus as shown in Fig. 1, or the application of the size in a single coat, the material to be sized passing from the rollers l2-around suitably arranged guide rollers, receives a coating of size as it passes through the sizing vessel or machine 13. From the sizing vessel it is directed by a-guide roller into the lower endof the drying compartment 1, passing upwardly there in over the reel 4 in its up er end, thence downwardly around the ree 6, thence upwardly'in thecompartment 2. over the reel 5, thence downwardly, leaving the drying tower and passing around the guide rollers 14. 15 and 16.

The heating coils or pipes 7 induce upward for the escape of air and vapor car-i arranged at suitable intervals therein.

currents of air through the compartments 1 and 2, and the heated air is blown by ,the fans 8 and directed .by the deflecting plates 9 against the material compartments, thereby agitating the same and accelerating the drying process. The moisture taken up with the ascending hot air escapes through the chimneys or discharge openings 10 at the upper ends of the compartments.

To prevent the deposit of vapor .on the material passing over the reel in the upper. part of each compartment, the reel is pro vided, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 with an axial steam or heating pipe 7 and with a fan 8, by which the moisture taken up by the hot air from the material below is blown passing through said away and kept of? from the artially dried material passing over the sai reel.

In order to obtain a thicker and even coating the size may be applied and dried suc- 5. cessively in two or more operations, the apparatus being provided for this purpose wlth additional sizing devices 17 as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. t

The drying tower may be provided with oneor 'more. compartments and its height may be varied according to. the natureof the work to be done.

Referring to Fig. 3, illustrating the operation of the apparatus in applying the size in a number of successive coats, the material to he sized passes from the rollers 12 through ,he first sizing receptacle 13, and, then ascends and descends through the first compartment of the drying tower, passing over the reel 4 in the up er part thereof. The first coating of size being thus'dried in its passage through the first drying compartment, the material passes through the second sizing receptacle 17, where it receives another coat of size. It then ascends and descends again through the second drying compartment, passing. overthe reel 5 in the up er part thereof. The second coat of size is t us dried upon the first coat. These operations first compartment of the drying tower or chamber, passing over the reel 4 in the upper .part thereof. Material of another color, mdicated by the full line 19, passes at the same time through and receives a coating of size from the receptacle 17. It then passes into and upwardly through the first drying comartment, being guided and held b suitably ocated rollers away from the size material of another color while it is in a moist condition. The two materials ofdiflerent colors }being sufficiently drie'd during their ascent through the first compartment, pass together over t e reel 4 and thence downward around the lower reel 6, ascending therefrom again in the second compartment of the drying chamber over the reel 5 therein, and finally descending and assing out of the last compartment aroun the'guide rollers 14, 15 and 16. The different colored materials bein simultaneo sly sized and held apart unt they can b brought together without detri- .sized material up may be repeated as many times as necessary ment, are simultaneously dried during" their passage through the apparatus, in the manner explained 1n connection with Fig. 1.

1. In sizing apparatus the combination with means for ap lying size to the material, of a vertical cham er having an outlet 0 ening at the top and an inlet opening at the ottom, reels located in the u per and lower parts of said chamber for con ucting the sized material up and down through said chamber, and heating pipes, fans and inclined deflecting plates arranged in said chamber to heat, induce and direct an upfiowing current of air laterally against the material and agitate the same in its passage through said chamber, substantially as described.

2. In sizing apparatus the i combination of a vertical drying chamber having inlet and outlet openings at the lower and upper ends respectively means for conducting the and down through said chamber comprising an open reel over which the material passes in the upper part of the. chamber and which is provi ed with a heating pipe and with a fan adapted to drlve off moisture from the material passing over the reel, substantially as described.

3. In sizing apparatus the combinat on with means for applying size to the material, of a vertical cham er having an outlet oplening at the top 'andan inlet opening at the ottom, reels located in the upper and lower parts of said chamber for conducting the sized material up and down through said chamber, heating pipes, fans and inclined deflectors arranged in said chamber to heat, induce .and direct an up-fiowing current of air laterally against the material and agitate the same in its passage through said chamber, and galleries at the side of the chamber for observing the operation of the apparatus and the condition of the material therein, substantially as described.

4. In sizing apparatus the combination with a sizing device, of a drying chamber comprising anumber of vertical compartments having inlets at the bottom and outlet openings at the top and provided with heating pipes and with fans and deflecting plates for directing upward currents of heated air against the material passing through said compartments, and guide rollers and reels arranged to direct the material to be sized first through the sizing machine and then successively up and down through each of the several com artments of the drying tower orchamber, su stantially as described.

5. In sizing apparatus the combination with a number of sizing devices, of a vertical drying chamber having an outlet opening at the top and an inlet opening at the bottom; means for simultaneously conveying a part their circuit and broug material gassing through the same, substan- 1c tially as escribed. In witness whereof I hereto aflix my s1gna ture in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGES MASUREL-LEGLERCQ. Witnesses:

JAMES DANTZER, AL RED C. HARRISON. 

